You couldn’t possibly look worse. Check it out. Your conference championship game will feature two teams — Oklahoma and Missouri — that lost to Texas.

Never saw that one coming, did you? What’s that? You’re going to review the system? Hey, that’s great. I’ll pass the word to Roy Miller and Brian Orakpo and the other Texas seniors.

They’ll appreciate your looking into it. Never mind that their chance to win a second national championship probably went out the window because you were asleep at the wheel.

Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe released a statement Sunday that essentially said nothing except, well, what a darn surprising turn of events.

Poor Dan. He must have been so busy organizing a cross-country meet that he let this one fall through the cracks. Of course, Dan now knows that allowing the BCS rankings to break a three-way tie is sheer stupidity.

The SEC doesn’t do it that way. Neither does the ACC or Conference USA. Dan says he’s going to do a thorough review. Oh, Dan, never mind. Finish that nap.

The ACC and SEC tiebreaking systems would have favored Texas. Both are more logical because the top two slots are decided by head-to-head competition.

The teams are seeded according to the BCS rankings, but the top spot is decided by what happened on the field. Does that ring your chime, Dan?

Yes, I think Texas is more deserving of being in the Big 12 Championship Game than OU.

Let’s review. Texas beat Oklahoma 45-35 in October. But Texas also stumbled once, losing to Texas Tech on the road with one second to play.

Each team had one loss. OU beat Texas Tech by 44 points in Norman. Texas beat OU by 10 in Dallas. Tech beat Texas by six in Lubbock.

Is it that complicated? Texas was one second from a perfect season. None of the other teams can say that.

Full disclosure

Please don’t write and tell me I’m in the tank for Mack Brown. Full disclosure: I am. I’m also in the tank for logic.

You knew this was coming, Longhorn Fan. You’ve known it since Oklahoma’s 65-21 rout of Tech.

You just knew that one was going to linger in the hearts and minds of voters. It wasn’t the deciding factor, but it’s the one that prepared you for UT’s getting robbed.

Never mind 45-35. Had Texas beaten OU by that margin last week, the Longhorns would be going to the Big 12 Championship Game instead of the Sooners.

It’s doubly frustrating because there’s no one else to vent to. I’ve screamed at dozens of computers through the years, and they just don’t care. Besides, Oklahoma has played as well as any team in the country the last month, and isn’t that what this is all about anyway?

Actually, it’s not. The BCS is supposed to weigh a team’s entire body of work and count a victory in October as much as one in November. Didn’t happen this time. Won’t happen next time.

Those polls clearly were influenced by a stretch run in which OU scored 60 points in four straight games and won five in a row by at least 20. And when it was time to put up or shut up, OU ran Tech off the field.

Texas didn’t exactly collapse. Since losing to Tech, the Longhorns won three games by the combined score of 129-37.

Runner-up prize

We could spend the next three weeks arguing which team deserved it. They beat us, but we beat them. Then again, they beat that other team by less than we beat them.

It’s just silly. Had the Sooners not advanced, they’d have every right to feel the way Mack Brown feels today.

The BCS is so flawed that almost no one was going to feel good about how this thing played out. The system wasn’t designed to deal with a season in which three of the best teams in the country played in one division of one conference. At least Florida and Alabama get to settle things on the field.

It is what it is, and it’s not likely to change. ESPN just agreed to a $125-million-a-year deal that will keep the BCS in place through at least 2014.

Brown did everything he could in terms of lobbying for his side. In the end, his chance to win a second national title came down to a bad 89 seconds in Lubbock.

I hear the Fiesta Bowl is nice in January. At least that’s what Brown will try to sell his Longhorns on. He’ll tell them it’s not a bad runner-up prize.

He’ll be lying. It’s lousy. Other teams may have complaints, but no other team has an argument as good as Texas’.

Unless Missouri upsets Oklahoma, Brown will have a huge challenge getting his players emotionally read to play the Fiesta Bowl.

No matter what he says, his players will know better. They’ll always know they should have been in the national championship game.